GOVERNMENT DATABASE(S) OF CIVILIAN DIGIPHOTOS

"The experimental and controversial Total Information
Awareness program of the Defense Advanced Research Project
Agency exemplifies these issues. By merging records from
corporate, medical, retail, educational, travel, telephone,
and even veterinary sources, as well as such "biometric"
data as fingerprints, iris and retina scans, DNA tests, and
facial-characteristic measurements, the program is meant to
create an unprecedented repository of information about both
U.S. and foregners with U.S. contacts." -- Dan Farmer,
"The Surveillance Nation," Technology Review, page 39, April
2003. [Dan Farmer, former chief of network security for Sun
Microsystems, advised Congress on privacy & security in the
Internet age, but is best known for having co-authored the
computer program called SATAN, a network security analysis
and probing program.

Digital face print to be required on travel documents,
April 19, 2002
Dr. Joseph J. Atick, chairman and CEO of Visionics
Corporation stated, "We are strongly encouraged by the
Senate passage of this key piece of legislation and the
impact it will have on homeland security. By requiring
travel documents to include biometrics identifiers, such as
fingerprint and face recognition, Congress has put forth the
mechanism by which we can identify those who pose a threat
to public safety..."

Canada contemplates giant database of medical records,
11/29/2002
"What he recommends would appear to be the end of health
privacy as we know it," Radwanski said in an interview
yesterday, accusing Romanow of paying lip service to privacy
concerns while outlining a record system that would
seriously violate privacy rights.

U.S. uses biometrics to track terror suspects,
AP, Oct 30, 2002
ASSOCIATED PRESS The United States is compiling digital
dossiers of the irises, fingerprints, faces and voices of
terrorism suspects and using the information to track their
movements and screen foreigners trying to enter the country.

U.S. Hopes to Check Computers Globally,
Washington Post, 11/12/02, Robert O'Harrow Jr.
"A new Pentagon research office has started designing a
global computer-surveillance system to give U.S.
counterterrorism officials access to personal information in
government and commercial databases around the world."

Irises, Voices Give Away Terrorists 11/7/2002,
CNN, November 7, 2002
(AP) -- The United States is compiling digital dossiers of
the irises, fingerprints, faces and voices of terrorism
suspects and using the information to track their movements
and screen foreigners trying to enter the country.

DARPA's New Occult Logo with All-Seeing Eye,
11/14/2002, Cutting Edge Ministry
"Therefore, the acronym formed by the name of this Bush
Administration office is the old, pagan name for the
Sun-God! Is it any wonder, then, that the Sun and its rays
are so dramatically "out-raying" from this All-Seeing Eye of
Lucifer on this I.A.O. symbol? You know, Illuminist John
Poindexter could have come up with any name relating to the
collection of information on American citizens; he did not
need to come up with a name whose acronym equals the hidden,
secret name of the Satanic god, Baal."

The Eye Is Watching, USA Daily, 11/21/02, Joe Sansone
"In a bizarre & frightening case of life imitating art, the
United States defense department has created an office that
seeks those same limitless powers as Tolkien’s dark lord.
The Information Awareness Office (IAO) seeks what it calls
“Total Information Awareness”. The agency has even adopted
the new world order symbol of the pyramid with the all
knowing eye...."

US to set up 'Big Brother' citizen database,
London Times, 11/22/02, Tim Reid
The agency will fund the development of technologies to
allow the Government to track e-mail, internet use, travel,
credit card purchases, phone and bank records, medical files
and every type of accessible private and public data into
what the Pentagon described as “one centralised grand
database”.

Massive database dragnet explored,
San Jose Mercury News, 11/21/02, Jim Puzzangera
"...the specter of the government analyzing records of
everyday activities has conjured images of the all-knowing
Big Brother government of Orwell's novel ``1984.'' Earlier
this week, more than 30 civil liberties groups wrote to
Senate leaders, urging them to stop further development of
the system."

Pentagon delivers software to assess data on terrorists,
Washington Times, Dec 18, 2002
The TIA would seek to create a massive database of billions
of transactions — some public, some private. It would
attempt to identify whether terrorists leave telltale
transaction fingerprints while planning attacks. If so, TIA
would find the fingerprints and alert law-enforcement
agencies and the military.

Information Awareness Office Website Deletes Occult Logo,
12/18/2002, thememoryhole.org
"Now, the IAO has removed its eye-death-ray logo, which was
denounced far and wide as being Orwellian, Masonic, and just
plain creepy as hell." --Russ Kick

Snooping in all the wrong places,
12/18/2002, by Jane Black, BW Online
"What these plans, including TIA, have in common is the goal
of collecting in a central repository what innocent citizens
do, where, and with whom. The war on terrorism is a serious
matter. But spying on everybody in an effort to catch a few
bad guys is lousy policy -- whether it's a giant new federal
agency like the Homeland Security Dept., TIPS, or the TIA
database, which in addition to collecting personal data also
proposes to use special software attached to high-tech
security cameras for monitoring and categorizing the way you
walk." -- Jane Black

Intelligence Official Will Lead TSA Profiling Effort,
Washington Post, 12/24/2002
The federal Transportation Security Administration has hired
an intelligence official with database expertise to oversee
development of the agency's computer profiling system, a
proposed network of supercomputers intended to instantly
assess every passenger's background for potential ties to
terrorism, officials close to the project said yesterday.

Senate Blocks Funding for Pentagon Database,
Reuters, Jan 23, 2003
"There has got to be congressional approval to deploy these
technologies, so this information doesn't get circulated
indiscriminately all over government," he said. "But in
striking the balance, when talking about matters of national
security, those matters can go forward." --Wyden

Bush Backs Big Brother Database,
CNET, January 30, 2003
A forthcoming U.S. government database will compile
information from all federal agencies and the private sector
on people deemed possible terrorist threats, President Bush
said in his State of the Union address.
Mr. Bush used the speech to announce the Terrorist Threat
Integration Center (TTIC), a mammoth data-collection project
intended to fuse information collected domestically by
police and internationally by spy agencies.

Oracle joins in FBI, CIA database plans,
The World Today, 2003, Feb 24
Oracle Corporation is working with the CIA and the FBI on
plans to create a national database which will capture
information on all Americans and quite possibly, people in
the rest of the world.

Pentagon database to spy on Americans
ZD Net, 2003, Feb 28
The US Defence Department has awarded millions of dollars to
more than two-dozen research projects that involve a
controversial data-mining project aimed at compiling
electronic dossiers on Americans.

Government begins sifting databases to find clues...",
usnews.com, April 7, 2003
Here's the plan: Book a seat, and a computer data-sifting
process matches your name, address, birth date, and
ticket-purchasing information against financial and comm-
ercial databases and government watch lists. The goal is
to verify your identity and look for any hint of a security
risk.

Fears About DNA Testing Proposal,
Julia Scheres, Wired, Mar. 31, 2003
A Justice Department proposal to create a database
containing the DNA of suspected terrorists has raised fears
that the measure would lead to so-called DNA dragnets.

Surviellance Nation,
Technology Reveiw, April 2003
"By merging records from corporate, medical, retail, educa-
tional, travel, telephone, and even veterinary sources, as
well as such 'biometric' data as fingerprints, iris scans,
DNA tests, and facial-characteristic measurements, the TIA
program is intended to create an unprecedented repository
of information about both U.S. citizens and foreigners with
U.S. contacts." -- Dan Farmer, former chief of network
security for Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, Earthlink;
also, co-author of the notorious program called SATAN that
searches computer networks for security holes.

New UK passports to include face recognition data
The Scotsman, Apr 28, 2003
Officials are to draw up plans for the new "smart" passports
by next March, and hope to begin implementing the scheme by
April 2005. The chip would carry facial recognition data
about the parameters of the passport holder’s face, such as
the exact distance between their eyes and the distance
between their nose and chin." - The Scotsman, Apr 28, 2003

Engineering the Beast System,
Infowars.com, Aug 2003, Alex Jones
Shortly after Congress funded the Total Information
Awareness Network, they still needed to claim that they had
voted it down. Two weeks after announcing that the program
had been de-funded (which wasn't true), the Associated Press
ran the headline, "US May Adopt Florida Anti-Terror
Database." It just so happens that Florida's
anti-terror/crime system was designed by DARPA and, in
truth, is nothing more than an already operating
subdirectorate of the Pentagon. It turns out that dozens of
other States already have the same system in place. And the
best part is the name of the program, which the Feds
designed, which they are now claiming that they just
stumbled upon and are now adopting. It's called the matrix.

If It Looks Like TIA and Smells Like TIA,
Nov. 22, 2003, Isaac Novak
IF IT LOOKS LIKE TIA AND SMELLS LIKE TIA... Several news
reports have recently caught my eye. Taken separately, they
are just additional examples of the burgeoning surveillance
state that is modern America; together, they are indicative
of a coordinated plan to set up permanent monitoring of the
American public and our activities - in short, a fully
reconstituted Total Information Awareness.
"Surveillance Nation, Part II", Technology Review, May 2003
"To further deter misuse, the database should preserve a
record of its users and their actions. Such precautions are
not only technically feasible but, to Lessing's way of
thinking, simply good public policy. Still, he sees 'next
to no chance' that such precautions will be implemented,
because terrorist attacks have changed the government's
attitude toward privacy." Technology Review, "Surveillance
Nation, Part II", by Dan Farmer and Charles Mann, page 52,
May 2003 (In other words, you're screwed.)

U.S. Pressing for High-Tech Spy Tools
Yahoo News, Tue, Feb 24, 2004, U.S. National - AP, Feb 22
2004, by MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN, Associated Press Writer:
"The whole congressional action looks like a shell game,"
said Steve Aftergood of the Federation of American
Scientists, which tracks work by U.S. intelligence agencies.
"There may be enough of a difference for them to claim TIA
was terminated while for all practical purposes the
identical work is continuing."

Commission defends inclusion of biometrics in EU passports
EUobserver.com, 02.03.2004 - 17:43 CET, by Sharon Spiteri
The Commission last month proposed the inclusion of digital
facial images and possibly fingerprints on EU passports and
also suggested the creation of a register containing the
fingerprints and other "relevant data" of EU passport
applicants.

EU Commission plots global travel surveillance system
The Register, 12 March 2004 Updated: 23:43 GMT
Privacy International says the Commission "has engaged in a
process of systematic deception and subterfuge... Not only
has it allowed key privacy rights to be extinguished in a
deal struck with the US last December, but it has also
failed to disclose its own intention to establish a more
extensive regime in the EU. The proposed EU surveillance
system will be used not only for purposes of anti-terrorism,
but also for immigration, law enforcement and customs.......
The process that will result in the construction of a
centralised European PNR database system is particularly
fascinating because of the way it's being pitched as a
protection mechanism and a convenience, rather than the
foundation of a travel surveillance system.

DOD tries out biometric smart cards overseas
03/19/2004, Susan M. Menke, GCN (Government Computer News)
The Defense Biometric Identification System, or DBIDS,
places a digital fingerprint and photo on a smart card in a
scalable configuration that local authorities can adapt to
their requirements. The card goes to individuals who do not
qualify for DOD's Common Access Card, although CAC holders
in those locations must also register in DBIDS.

Campaigners fight biometric passports
The Register, 1 April 2004, Updated: 13:30 GMT
The face doesn't fit ICAO has decided that the initial
international biometric standard for passports will be
facial mapping. Fingerprinting may come later. The EU is
already calling for fingerprints to be included, along with
an associated European register of all biometrics. National
authorities will store and share these vast data reserves.

Technology Strains to Find Menace in the Crowd,
New York Times, May 31, 2004, Greg Mathews
Advocates of face-recognition technology have long promoted
it as one of the least intrusive biometrics, and potentially
the most powerful because it can make use of a huge amount
of existing data. "There are 1.2 billion digitized photos of
people in databases around the world," the chief executive
of Identix, Joseph J. Atick, said.

Fears of national ID with driver's licenses, September 2004
WorldnetDaily.com, September 28, 2004
According to the legislation, within three years of its
enactment, no federal agency may accept for any official
purpose a driver's license or identification card issued by
a state that does not require applicants to provide Social
Security number and "facial imaging capture."

Students' Privacy at Risk
Des Moines Register, December 4, 2004
It feels like an idea straight from Big Brother: The federal
government is looking into creating a national
enrollment-record database that would track every college
and university student in the country by Social Security
number.

Drivers would have to provide four types of
documentation, such as a photo ID, a birth certificate,
proof that their Social Security number is legitimate and
something that verifies the applicant's full home address,
such as a utility bill. The law would then compel Department
of Motor Vehicle employees to verify the documents against
federal databases and store the documents and a digital
photo of the card holder in a database.

"Does the Brotherhood exist?" "That Winston, you will never
know. If we choose to set you free when we have finished
with you, and if you live to be ninety years old, still you
will never learn whether the answer to that question is yes
or no. As long as you live, it will be a riddle in your
mind." -- 1984 by George Orwell